John Allan, Architect, and his Stirling buildings, 1893 – 1911
The Stirling Dean of Guild Collection has a number of sets of plans drawn by the idiosyncratic Stirling Architect, John Allan. The plans held show the variety of styles that […]
Six New Designs for Convenient Farm-Houses, 1751
Stirling Council Archives holds a small collection of Blair Drummond records deposited in the 1970s (PD17). The collection includes two pamphlets written by William Halfpenny, ‘Six New Designs for Convenient […]
Stirling photographers, Crowe & Rodgers
Stirling Council Archives accepts deposits of private collections. The Dr Jamieson of Barnach (PD78) collection includes some family photographs taken by Stirling photographers, Crowe and Rodgers. These small photographs are […]
Doors Open Day: 10 & 11 September
Stirling Council Archives at the Engine Shed, Forthside Saturday 10th September, 10am – 4pm Sunday 11th September, 10am-4pm The Engine Shed, Forthside Way, Stirling, FK8 1QZ (over the spiky footbridge […]
Our Lady and St Ninian Church, Bannockburn
On Sunday 13th November 1927, Our Lady and St Ninian Church opened in Bannockburn. The building took two years to construct, with the original plans being approved on 17th April […]
Local Authority Housing in Stirling 1925 – 1954
The Stirling Dean of Guild plan series includes lots of plans of housing developments built by both Stirling Town Council and Stirling County Council. As well as being useful for […]
District Nurse’s House, Killin, 1935
Before the NHS was formed in 1948, District Nursing Associations (“DNA”) took responsibility for employing, paying and housing district nurses. In the 1930’s many DNAs began building modern houses for […]
Prisoner of War Camp, Killearn – March 1943
Over the course of World War Two, more than 500,000 prisoners of war (POW) arrived in Britain. Camps were situated throughout the county with army barracks and even stately homes […]
From Gothic to Modernist, Two Stirling Churches, 1904 and 1970
The designs for these two churches, separated by 66 years, could not be more different and show the changes in attitudes to church architecture through the 20th century. The first […]
Document of the Month – August 2016: Argaty Estate Photograph Album, c. 1920
Last month, we received a very kind donation to the archives: a photograph album of Argaty Estate. The album contains photographs of several buildings found within the estate. This includes […]